Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
May,  1904. 
A  Prescription  File. 
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one  or  two  tablespbonfuls  of  the  oil.  Pure  olive  oil  will  not  give 
any  disagreeable  smell  and  the  dish  can  be  eaten,  according  to  my 
taste,  with  pleasure;  but  impure  or  second  quality  of  oil  will  give- 
out,  under  these  circumstances,  a  displeasing  odor,  and  a  dry,  dis- 
agreeable sensation  is  produced  in  the  throat  if  an  attempt  to  swal- 
low it  is  made. 
But  here  comes  the  question :  How  can  the  Americans  obtain 
pure  Italian  olive  oil  ? 
The  only  answer  that  I.  can  give  is  very  simple:  Buy  from  the 
producers  and  reject  the  so-called  Lucca  oil,  because  Lucca  can 
hardly  supply  herself  with  her  own  oil. 
In  the  large  Italian  cities,  in  spite  of  a  law  against  adulterations, 
pure  olive  oil  cannot  be  obtained  so  easily.  The  law  is  not  com- 
plete because  it  tends  to  prevent  only  adulterations  injurious  to 
health.  So  the  majority  of  the  people  are  often  compelled  to 
receive  their  supply  of  oil  for  domestic  use  directly  from  the  coun- 
try, paying  a  good  price  for  it. 
The  Americans  cannot  do  the  same,  but  they  can  encourage 
direct  importation. 
A  PRESCRIPTION  FILE. 
By  J.  W.  P.  Outkrbridgk. 
This  file  is  constructed  of  a  brass  rod  (No.  8),  and  is  held  in  a 
rigid,  perpendicular  position  between  two  iron  brackets  (or  shelves) 
by  the  aid  of  three  nuts — a,  b  and  ct  as  shown  in  the  figure.  Into 
the  lower  end  of  the  wire  a  hole  d  is  bored. 
The  desk  file  consists  of  a  short  piece  of  No.  8  wire  with  an  inner 
thread  e,  screwed  to  the  base  /.   The  thread  e  is  similar  to  that  of  a. 
To  transfer  the  prescriptions  from  the  desk  file  to  the  permanent 
or  stationary  file,  unscrew  the  nut  a,  curve  the  wire  slightly  so  as  to 
bring  the  upper  end  out  of  the  bracket,  unscrew  the  desk  file  from 
its  base  and  screw  onto  the  permanent  or  stationary  file.  At 
the  close  of  the  year,  unscrew  the  nuts  a  and  c,  remove  the  file  from 
the  brackets,  unscrew  the  nut  by  insert  a  pointed  wire  into  the  hole 
d,  transfer  the  year's  prescriptions  to  this  new  file,  and  set  up  the 
original  file  for  use  again. 
I  would  suggest  that  the  files  for  two  or  three  years  back,  which 
are  kept  at  hand  for  renewing  prescriptions,  be  held  in  a  rigid,  per- 
